EZBass Not Playing Original MIDI File Key

[Mike Ridenour]

I have been using MODO Bass for years and decided today to give EZBass a try since an industry friend of mine raved about the fretless bass.  So I dropped a couple of hundred bucks and have spent the past several hours trying to get this EZBass plugin to play in the same key I wrote my MIDI bass line in.  I give up so I am hoping someone here can help me.  EZbass does this no matter if it is inserted on a Pro Tools instrument track with the MIDI written on the instrument track or if the MIDI is imported into the plugin.  It is consistently playing a whole step down from the original pitch as defined in the MIDI file.  I can adjust the pitch up two semitones within the plugin but then the keyboard in EZbass if off by a whole step.  This makes it frustrating to edit and makes absolutely no sense.  Can EZbass not follow MIDI pitch as inputed into the plugin?  Please help.

EZbass version: 1.0.9
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

• This post was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Mike Ridenour.

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[Billy 86]

Did you set the key in EZ Bass to match your key before you loaded the MIDI in?

SD3 3.4, EZK2.1.3, EZ Bass 1.3.1, Win11, i9/9900, all SSDs, 64g RAM, Cakewalk, Studio One

[Mike Ridenour]

Yes, and it changes my MIDI notes from the original to notes in a different key.  It still will not play in the right key.  I eventually ended up playing the original file, through modo bass, and recorded it into EZbass and it worked.  Still, there should be a way for EZBass to play a note for note MIDI file in the key it was written without having to set a particular key in EZBass.

[vmf84]

I am having a similar issue with EZ Bass.  If I drop the midi into the DAW track and then add the plugin later, it’s all good.  If I drop the midi into the EZ Bass as a plugin or as a stand alone it is cutting  a specific part of my track every time.  The notes just aren’t there every time the track comes up to the chorus.  This only occurs with this plugin, I am unable to duplicate the issue with other plugins both native and third party.

[MGable]

SMH

EZbass version: 1.1.6
Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

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